Russia would like to avoid scenario requiring intervention in Moldova's breakaway Transnistria region - RIA

Russia would like to avoid a scenario where it would need to intervene in the situation in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria, Russia's state-run new agency RIA reported on Tuesday, as cited by Reuters. 

The US earlier said it is watching events in the sovereign nation of Moldova closely, adding that it is too soon to comment on recent explosions in the government buildings of the self-declared breakaway region of Transnistria.

Russia is being accused by Ukraine of staging false flag operations in Transnistria, a region occupied by Russian troops, that could justify opening a new front to the Russo-Ukraine war. Moldova's region of Transnistria borders Ukraine to the southwest (near Odesa).